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2026 84 grants · $65M
DateFunderAmountPurpose
Sep 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$10kTesting human accountability in multi-agent AI swarms source
Sep 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$5kTaking a two-month sabbatical to plan a next contribution to AI safety source
Sep 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$4kDeveloping automated auditing for AI labs source
Sep 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$3kResearching AI geopolitics and compute governance at RAND Europe source
Sep 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$3kTesting an AI safety policy career path in Washington, DC source
Sep 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$2kRunning an AI security and safety village at a New York conference source
Sep 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$2kTesting debate-based oversight for sabotaged AI-generated research source
Sep 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$2kMeasuring how uncertainty disappears across multi-agent systems source
Sep 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$2kTraining multi-agent systems to resist pressure to misreport responsibility source
Sep 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$1kPresenting mechanistic-interpretability research at BlackboxNLP source
Sep 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$1kStrengthening organizational leadership at AI Safety Poland source
Sep 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$650Reimbursing compute for three technical AI safety research projects source
Sep 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$600Attending EA Global New York to develop AI control research connections source
Sep 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$550Building an AI safety lending library at Hasso Plattner Institute source
Sep 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$300Attending the Pro-Human Assembly 2026 source
Sep 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$200Measuring whether coding agents disclose use of leaked information source
Sep 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$200Testing causal linear probes for deception detection source
Sep 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$100Testing how emotion steering affects language-model performance source
Aug 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$10kMaking superhuman Go systems explainable source
Aug 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$4kScaling provably safe learning architectures to robotics and language models source
Aug 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$3kBehavioral Self-Consistency in Language Models source
Aug 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$3kResearching self-modification and recursive self-improvement in AI systems source
Aug 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$2kXLab Tracks: online curricula on technical AI safety fields for post-fundamentals learners. Currently developi source
Aug 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$650After working as a research assistant, I am now dedicating my time to organizing NTU AI Safety, building the A source
Aug 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$500Parameter-efficient machine unlearning for multimodal diffusion language models, using LoRA to selectively rem source
Aug 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$400Developing theoretical work on ontological crises and reflective stability source
Aug 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$300Stress-testing sandbagging evaluation methods source
Aug 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$300Understanding computation in language-model filler tokens source
Aug 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$250Investigating subliminal learning and model self-knowledge source
Aug 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$150Testing debate protocols for AI monitoring source
Aug 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$100Replicating code for ‘Mind the Gap: Evaluating Model- and Agentic-Level Vulnerabilities in LLMs with Action Gr source
Aug 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$100Testing phantom transfer in agentic synthetic-data fine-tuning source
Jul 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$10kResearching adversarial AI use by violent non-state actors source
Jul 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$5kTechnical AI governance research at GovAI, currently assessing best practices for how frontier AI companies re source
Jul 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$4kTwo-week Berkeley visit to attend Iliad 2026, meet colleagues, refine high-level research agenda and risk mode source
Jul 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$3kBringing professional-grade threat modeling into AI safety. Building a foundational methodology doc, running w source
Jul 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$1kI am evaluating the construct validity of AI safety evaluation frameworks of general purpose chatbots in menta source
Jul 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$700Leading EA at Penn and preparing to re-found Penn's AI safety group, while building my own AI safety knowledge source
Jul 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$500Reproducing the SDF portion of Believe It or Not (https://github.com/safety-research/believe-it-or-not) with s source
Jul 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$450I'm an Anthropic Fellow working on introspection/consistency training in the hope that this will make models' source
Jul 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$400My project is about replicating and extending "AnthroBench", a library for generating, rating, and analyzing d source
Jul 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$100I am part of the Technical Project Sprint, and want to pursue this research direction in AI Control: Are archi source
Jun 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$5kAI Safety Policy Summer Fellowship and HKS Summer Program at Harvard source
Jun 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$5k10-week internship researching the AI/bio/nuclear risk sections of Brookings policy book source
Jun 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$4kI am presenting my AI safety papers to ICML 2026 source
Jun 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$3kPresenting alignment research at an ICML workshop, and visiting ICML to gain experience and connections if I c source
Jun 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$3kI worked on making fine-tuning more robust in continual training scenarios. Now I am more interested in workin source
Jun 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$3kAttending TAIGR@ICML2026. I co-authored two accepted papers there: one on systems-theoretic risk-analysis of l source
Jun 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$2kReplicating and extending the Alignment Faking in LLMs paper to more recent Claude model(s) using more ambiguo source
Jun 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$2kI'm an Oxford maths undergrad working on agentic attack control and AI security. I previously was a research c source
Jun 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$2kPresenting my accepted archival paper at the ICML 2026 EMM-QA Workshop on evaluating multimodal foundation mod source
Jun 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$2kPresenting accepted research on AI incident monitoring and risk measurement at the ICML 2026 Technical AI Gove source
Jun 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$2kTech Thesis Ideathon - a day of research-crafting workshops for 30-40 women researchers and aspiring researche source
Jun 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$1kUnderstanding learned representations and failure modes in deep neural networks, with a focus on interpretabil source
Jun 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$750Organizing NTU AI Safety in Taiwan, and attending ICML 2026 & WiML (Seoul, July 6–11) to present a research po source
Jun 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$500Running mechinterp experiments and agent evals on ICL-induced emergent misalignment. This is my project for th source
Jun 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$350Validating Natural Language Autoencoders using constructed-ground-truth model organisms to test whether NLAs d source
Jun 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$200program: ARBOx4 in Oxford to build skills required for career in AI safety research. Project: exploring debate source
Jun 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$200Mechanistic Interpretability in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models source
Jun 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$200Investigate if the past-tense jailbreak vulnerability in refusal-trained LLMs generalizes across languages wit source
Jun 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$150Replicating and extending the Alignment Faking in LLMs paper to more recent models source
Jun 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$117Testing whether LLMs caused semantic diversity to decline in animal welfare discourse on Reddit, using regress source
Jun 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$100Evaluating whether machine unlearning methods genuinely erase knowledge or merely hide it behind refusal behav source
Jun 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$68Ticket for NZ AIS conference source
May 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$7kI am running SRIE, a mentored-research programme for Cambridge Mathematics Undergraduate students to explore r source
May 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$6kBlueDot co-branded social to close the Trustworthy AI for Good Workshop at ICML2026 in Seoul source
May 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$5kStudying technical indicators of model introspection, networking in the space of machine self-awareness and mo source
May 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$3kDesigning a pragmatic classification framework for AI incident monitoring, in collaboration with Arcadia Impac source
May 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$2kI am hoping to attend Effective Altruism Global’s London conference from May 29-31. There, I plan to explore c source
May 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$1kTravel for to attend 2026 Cooperative AI Summer School source
May 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$1kTravel Support for Trip to Boston source
May 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$1kOrganising an AI safety comms meetup (pre-EAG London) source
May 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$500Testing mode capabilities against cyber ranges with defensive tooling source
May 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$250Replicating the findings of "Learning a Generative Meta-Model of LLM Activations", Luo et. al, and trying to a source
May 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$100Testing whether evaluation awareness emerges before instrumental convergence in RLVR-trained models, using OLM source
May 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$75Evaluating whether machine unlearning methods genuinely erase knowledge or merely hide it behind refusal behav source
Apr 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$500Agentic misalignment in sub-frontier models. source
Apr 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$400Attending the inaugural EAGxDC Conference from May 1-3, 2026 source
Apr 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$300Does cultural framing affect AI safety boundaries? source
Apr 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$200Alignment Faking Replication and Ablations source
Apr 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$150Technical AI safety project cohort source
Apr 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$100I am working on studying the effects of compression techniques (quantization, pruning, SVD) on unlearning. source
Feb 2026BlueDot Rapid Grants$100Reimplementation & extending linear probes for high stakes detection source
2026OpenAI Foundation~$65MAI Resilience programme, grants being finalised (announced Jun 2026) [AI-safety share est. 50% of $130,000,000 (range 25–75%): the programme names four areas with no split: 'AI model safety' (counted in full), bio-resilience (framed as defence against AI misuse but pathogen-agnos source
2025 1 grant · $1k
DateFunderAmountPurpose
Jun 2025BlueDot Rapid Grants$1kContent Creation Equipment funding source
2022 2 grants · $2M
DateFunderAmountPurpose
Apr 2022Navigating Transformative AI$1.8MOpen Phil AI Fellowship: Grant to provide scholarship to eleven machine learning researchers over five years.. From Vipul Naik's donations database (via OpenBook) source
Feb 2022Navigating Transformative AI$113kAI Funding for Individuals — Work and Study Support — Open Philanthropy recommended a total of $113,372 to support individuals pursuing work and study related to potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence. The grant amount was updated in... [Navigating Transformative A source
2021 1 grant · $1M
DateFunderAmountPurpose
Apr 2021Navigating Transformative AI$1MOpen Phil AI Fellowship — 2021 Class — https://web.archive.org/web/20240601000000/https://openphilanthropy.org/grants/open-phil-ai-fellowship-2021-class/ [Navigating Transformative AI; Coefficient Giving grants archive] source
2020 2 grants · $2.9M
DateFunderAmountPurpose
May 2020Navigating Transformative AI$2.3MOpen Phil AI Fellowship: Grant to provide scholarship to ten machine learning researchers over five years. From Vipul Naik's donations database (via OpenBook) source
Mar 2020Navigating Transformative AI$594kStudy and Training Related to AI Policy Careers: Grant is "flexible support to enable individuals to pursue and explore careers in artificial intelligence policy." Recipients include Emefa Agawu, Karson Elmgren, Individual #1686, Becca Kagan, and Individual #7147. The ways that.. source
2019 1 grant · $2.3M
DateFunderAmountPurpose
May 2019Navigating Transformative AI$2.3MOpen Phil AI Fellowship: Grant to provide scholarship support to eight machine learning researchers over five years. From Vipul Naik's donations database (via OpenBook) source
2018 2 grants · $1.3M
DateFunderAmountPurpose
May 2018Navigating Transformative AI$1.1MOpen Phil AI Fellowship: Grant to provide scholarship support to seven machine learning researchers over five years. From Vipul Naik's donations database (via OpenBook) source
Feb 2018Navigating Transformative AI$159kAI Scholarships: Discretionary grant; total across grants to two artificial intelligence researcher, both over two years. The funding is intended to be used for the students’ tuition, fees, living expenses, and travel during their respective degree.... From Vipul Naik's donations source